The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-12
SERIOUS LOSSES BY FLOODS.
Distressing Condition of Affairs at Lyons
Mich.-The Town Threatened with Ruin.

LYONS, Mich, Feb. 1.-THE food here is
simply terrible. A panic has seized some of the
people, and it is impossible to get estimates of
deep in many residences, and the same state of
affairs prevails in. store-rooms Everybody ia
moving or preparing to move. Last night was
the most exciting the village has ever expert
enced. Up to last night three buildings had
been washed away and demolished, and many
others we're badly damaged. Alexander McFar
lanes family are sick and cut off from assist
snce The Herald Office has been boated to
higher quarters. but the paper will be published
as usual. A slight abatement of the flood was
noticed last night but it is in all its force this
morning. Rain fell in torrents until about mid
night, when it changed to snow, and by daylight
fully eight inches of snow and sleet had fallen.
There is regular northeastern, with a twenty
mile wind. The river has risen two feet in the
last twenty-four hours, and is still rising. The
people are worn ont working nighs aad day to
save their property The Maple and Crane
rivers unite here, and both are raging At this
hour t1l3O A. NJ it is impossible to give COM
plete estimate Of the damage DONE Should the
Lansing ice reach here before the gorge gives
way, all the business places on the north side of
Main street will be washed away. rough estl-
mate of the damage makes the aggregate be-
tween seventy five thousand and one hundred
thousand dollars.
At Muir the same serious conditions prevail,
and merchants have abandoned their stores.
Teegrarcs from other points are to the came
effect but Lyons seems to be the worst sufferer.
Fred Winters, Of Charlotte, was drowned wheE
trying to cross the Thorn apple river.
Three Rivers is surrounded with water. All
ShODS
immense lumber piles Of Roberts. Thorp & Co.,
and those belonging to Vosburg, are afoat The
Lake Shore track is in great danger OF being
| washed away.
At Owosso six inches of snow fell last night
| and the river is still rising.
! AT Monroe the river Raisin has been slowly
| rising for the past twenty-four hours. but the
| ice has broken, giving free passage to the lake
| The banks Of the river are lined with immense
walls of ice and frozen snow, rising eigth or tel
| feet above the present hieh-water mark, and
great fields of ice of the same thickness fill all
| the streets adjacent to the river.
At jackson the pressure OF water in the
Grand river, in the ll-pond above the city, was
| too great and last night the sluices were
opened. with the result that the water rose sew
| eral feet, and the Grand Trunk bridge is now
under water. The Hurd Hotel basement has
| two feet of water in it. Cellars in business
blocks in the center of the town are all flooded
| from eighteen inches to two and half feet, and
the State fair grounds are completely submerged.
| Ou tio idfso tFdct vi iduu III tue sOutu pdCt OA
the city known as Mitchelrs addition, the water
is up to the floors of the dwellings--Tke prison
walls stand in the midst of lake. Davis's Hotel
barns have three feet of water in Thorn, and the
| horses have been removed
OwAsso, Mich, Feb 11.-At 2 o'clock this
| afternoon the water was still rising. Large
| quantities of lumber have been swept away.
| The residences along the river are flooded, and
| the inmates have moved into the second stories.
| VERMoNTvILLE Mich, Feb. 11.-Never in
! the history of the town has the water in Thorn
| apple river been high. Up to 2 o'clock this
bridges have been swept away and the railroad
| is submerged.
| BATTLE CREEK Mich, Feb. 1.-THE water
| in Battle creek and Kalamazoo rivers continues
| TO rise, and the lower portions of the city are
| submerged The water was never known sc
| high before Some houses and bridges are iEi
| danger, and some mills and manufactures are
closed